Sigmund Freud
Freud believed that memory is basis of developing peoples individual psyche, whether that be in a normal or pathologically unhealthy way, he said memory is the main element that shapes are personality and develops us into being who we are.
He also believed that people ‘repress’ painful deep into their subconscious mind. He argued that people do not ‘concsiously’ suppress painful and traumatic experiences, meaning people are unaware that they have done so and that these supressed memories continue to function in the unconscious as the repressed motivations of actions, and so they often re-surface in times of stress or if triggered due to other reasons.
Some individuals do not develope in the ‘normal’ stage of the infantile psycho-sexual development (oral, anal, genital) meaning they become fixated or regressive to these neurotic behaviour (fetishes and obsessions).
